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Last week it became more official to 100,000 Viennese on the pavements for the Corpus Christi parade. There marched Chancellor Dollfuss. Vice Chancellor Prince von Starhemberg. Minister of Public Security Emil Fey. And behind them came old Eugen. tall and deliberate, the ceremonial robes of a Grand Master of the Teutonic Order swinging about his calves. A shout eddied along beside him: "Eugen! Eugen!" The Habsburg knew Vienna liked...
Last week a smart Chicago lawyer filed suit in Federal Court at Corpus Christi against the six trustees of the property on behalf of a group of King heirs. That the suit was filed in Federal court was accepted as evidence of the overpowering local influence of the Klebergs as rulers of the King Ranch. The lawyer is Thomas Hart Fisher, whose father was President Taft's Secretary of the Interior, himself a member of Chicago's eminent firm of Fisher, Boyden, Bell, Boyd & Marshall. His clients are two grandchildren of old Captain King named Atwood. These Chicago...
...first Seal in the long series of those which have been recorded, was made seven years before the College was chartered, somewhere in the Colonies, but was little if ever used. In 1650 the "In Christi Gloriam" seal, which will be presented to President Conant in the Inauguration ceremony along with the present official one, was probably made in London. In 1693 John Coney, the famous Colonial silversmith, made another, remarkable for its simplicity and dignity, which was used until 1812. At this time a simple reproduction was made. Josiah Quincy, President of the College from...
Back on his White House job President Roosevelt last week filled his fifteenth and last ambassadorship when he appointed Henry Hulme ("Hal") Sevier of Corpus Christi, Tex., to represent him in Chile* Born 55 years ago in Tennessee. Ambassador Sevier was transplanted to Texas in early youth, worked as a cowboy, sat in the State Legislature at 21, published a newspaper at Austin. Today "Hal" Sevier is tall, greying, courtly...
...wind that had smashed Cuba (TIME, Sept. 11) reached the south Texas coast one day last week, beginning with fitful, stabbing gusts and a rain that spread out fanwise across the 200-mi. shorefront from Corpus Christi to Brownsville. The gloomy curtain rolled inland over orchards and cotton fields before the lappings and lashings of the wind. Long muddy-foamed sea waves licked angrily at the shore, tumbled into the lowlands. At Corpus Christi a giant steam whistle blew its shrill warning blast at ten-second intervals. Streets were deserted, houses and storefronts had been hurriedly boarded up. The townspeople...